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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Things
Dust
Earthworms
Like
Changes
Comets
Quite
Dragged
Sure
Indirect
Doe
Glowing
Earth
Trails
Writing
Tails
Always
Deliberate

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